Integration with JIRA provides three advantages:
- You can log in on either http://wiki.nci.nih.gov or http://tracker.nci.nih.gov and you will be logged in on both sites.
- If you have editing permissions on the wiki, you can use a shortcut to display any one JIRA issue. Refer to How do I use the JIRA shortcut?
- If you have editing permissions you can also use the jiraissues macro. Refer to How do I use the jiraissues macro?
Confluence 3.5 provides improved JIRA integration, demonstrated in a video provided by Atlassian.